The Chinese View of the Communist Manifesto

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This paper examines the Communist Manifesto. The paper first examines what China looked like from a political and cultural perspective around the 1920s and how it got to that point. The paper then gives a view of how a Chinese person might read the Manifesto at some point around the 1920s when China was in desperate need of some form of national unity.

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"The unification of China was the dominant theme around the 1920s. China needed to combine every class of people in order to get back on her feet. Although China did not fit the Marxist model, the ideas within the Manifesto ultimately called for unity which was the main concern of China at the time. Marx's program was designed to create a situation where everyone had the right to live a meaningful existence with the adequate means to live by. With this in mind, a Chinese reading the Manifesto would be drawn to these themes because China was overwhelmingly illiterate and poor. Even though Marx looked down upon the rural life, this is what Chinese reformers and revolutionaries had to deal with."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Engels, Frederick, and Karl Marx. The Communist Manifesto: Complete with Seven Rarely Published Prefaces. New York: Filiquarian Publishing, Llc., 2005. Print.
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• Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. Print.
• Karl, Marx, Engels Friedrich, and Jones Gareth. The Communist Manifesto. London: Penguin Books, 2002. Print.
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